Data Descriptions for The Zebrafish Database (ZDB)

SECTION II: Experimental Data

Abstract Class: DATA_ITEM

Class: PHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDS


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Role: This class allows users to enter non-photographic records.

How/Who enters: Most of these records are entered remotely by authorized submitters.

Sample Query Scenario: Has anyone obtained intracellular recordings from muscle cells in a particular mutant?

Security: Once created, the only field that can be remotely updated by the original submitter is the publications field.


Superclasses: GENERIC_OBJECT
DATA_ITEMcomments, primary_pub, related_pubs, source

ATTRIBUTES:

kind (closed set, REQUIRED). This field describes the nature of the data contained in the record field. Acceptable values are limited to {current, voltage, optical}

record. The actual data record or a graphical image of it.

description (TEXT, REQUIRED). This field gives a textual description of the data, describing the conditions under which the data were recorded, and drawing the reader’s attention to features in the data. Similar in nature to a legend on a figure. At least some description is required.

Open Issues/Questions:

• What is the data type of the record attribute? Is it just a numerical vector? Or is it a GIF image of a graph?

• This class seems very under-specified. Need to develop the query scenario to understand better how one might go about searching for a specific record.



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